Years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, these people stood up. Black and white, male and female, enslaved and free, they publicly opposed racism and violence and fought for freedom and equality.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Historians, veterans, and Rockford residents gathered at Veterans Memorial Hall to learn more about the history of local abolitionists at a “Civil War Roundtable.” The event ...

Republican MAGA movement folks have been predicting another civil war. The federal government’s deep state is trampling upon their freedoms and those of former President Donald Trump. Two days after ...

With Independence Day coming and all the trappings of July 4th-related festivities in full swing and continuing over the next two days (including the hot dogs and concerts and flag-waving and ...

As the Civil War raged in America, a group of slave catchers caught up with Leroy Lee, who had fled slavery to Cincinnati. They took him east to New Richmond, intending to ship him back to his ...

The Boston Way,” examines a group of abolitionists who believed a civil war would not only result in bloodshed but also set ...

With the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the war merged with the abolitionist cause. The Proclamation had included an unexpected clause: at last, black men could enlist in the armed services ...

MARIETTA — A 19th century abolitionist will be the topic of a presentation meeting of the Civil War Round Table at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 320 Second St. “Cassius ...

Over 160 years ago on Dec. 2, 1859, the militant slavery abolitionist John Brown was hanged on charges of treason, murder and ...

The American Civil War remains one of the most studied and debated periods in U.S. history, as well as our […] ...

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